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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

~Barbara Kingsolver

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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Agent Answering Back Being Call Child Contract Exactly First First Child Got Had Hospital Life Message Mother My Life Novel Novelist Phone Saying

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: About Brave Deeper Embrace Every Every Time Fiction Go Going Here Lord New Novel Oh Read Readers Reality Something Terrible Think Time Want World Write I Think I Write

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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Attachment Being Character Count Enriched Future Imagine Kids Kind Mother Sense Understanding Ways Which World Writer I Can

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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Always Control Eyes Gives Love Outcomes Over Predictable Render Science Scientist Seen Through Us World I Love

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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

~Barbara Kingsolver

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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

~Barbara Kingsolver

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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

~Barbara Kingsolver

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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Accept Big Big Guy Control Dump Everything Guy Importance Just More Now Relief Religion Responsibility Same Same Thing See Thing Think Used Your I See

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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Being Brave Courage Deeper Embrace Fiction Get Never Over Read Readers Reality Thankful Think World I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 8th, 1955

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